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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wednesday; rising temperature Wednesday. Temperature: Highest yesterday 63 LoV.est this nywptig ,, , 34 Preclptatlon last 24 hrw T. To Keep Posted There It something new every day In the classified ads of this newspaper. To keep posted It Is necessary to refer to these ads each day. It's worth your time. Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Press FuU United Press Thirty-First Year 31 EDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 193 No. 1-15. OH. MAR M law J M MB M By PAUL MALL OX (Copyright, 1936. by Paul Mutton) WASRINOTON, Sept. 15. Never be fore have national political organiza tions gone In behind a state election with strategy and money to the ex tent they did In Maine. Published ex penditures repre sented only a part of the money sent Into the state b y both sides. Most of it will be totaled later by senato rial campaign investigators, but some of It may be hard to find. At any rate, both aidea spent as much as they thought they could; both schemed, end ran the state campaigns to an extent never attempted before. The air of nonchalance assumed around Democratic headquarters cov ered energetic activities In which ven government bureaus were press ed Into last-minute service for the cause. (Chairman Parley wa supposed to have had some trouble co-operating with hia unfriendly senatorial candi date, but this wan moro apparent than real). Actually, both sides shot the works In the Pine Trc state. , To give you an Idea how well Mr. Farley worked: The state department here la not supposed to play politics, at least not on a ward basis. It deals with with International affairs.. which are supposed to bo conducted on a some what higher plane than even state elections. Also, high-minded State Secretary Hull has never been par ticularly clubby with the Farleyitea. ,. However, on Saturday. two days be fore the Maine election, the state department stage-whispered to the press that it had sold Argentina 30, 000 barrels of Maine potatoes. They were to be used as a seed crop for Argentine potato growers who have suffered a severe drought. While Mr. Hull la not supposed to be running a grocery store, In this instance he appeared as salesman to the Argentine agents who come here to study different types of potatoes, letting the news slip out Just prior to the voting. What he did not let slip, unoffi cially or otherwise. Is that the Ar gentines are also buying Canadian potatoes in like amount. If you could administer some truth strum to the right persons, you could find out that President Roosevelt (Continued on Page Six.) PLAN NO INQUEST No Inquest will be held Into the death of Kenneth E. Howard, killed In an auto crash early Sunday morn ing on the Jack son vl lie -Ruch high way, when his car left the road and turned over three times, Howard's head was crushed. He was a logger of the Dead Indian district. The state police and aheflff's office continued their hunt today for the hit-run driver of a Chevrolet coupe, who Sunday night struck and killed Everett J. Thompson, 65, of Talent, as he walked on the Pacific highway The officers seek an auto with pos sibly broken glass and bent fenders, and a missing radiator emblem. An Inquest was underway today at Ashland Into the death of Thompson. f SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Smith, athlete who took cook ing his last year in high school, bragging shout his chicken a la king, which melts In the mouth, and add ing. "I make It out of rabbit." And Jim Bayllss sitting alongside and making fun of Smith for being a sissy, while busily engaged In re pairing a girl's handbag. Archie "Rembrant" Lalng standing on a elgnboard catwalk slapping paste on a big poster, then stepping back to survey hi work and almost top pling backwards onto hi head. Hairy Hansen offering to show Che-fspollce MrCredle bow devastat ing an afrplane spin can be until he remembered he cracked several ribs the last time he cot athletic, so call ing the match off. Prince SUlkt Mlhaiakis coming Into the M. T. office this morning and finding Lrs Wolff already there, thr two glowering coldly at each other and departing In opposite direction. Si SENATOR WHITE .BY 5000 VOTES Democrats Ousted After Four Years Control Of State Heated Campaign Brings Out Record Vote (Copyright, 1336, by the Associated Press) PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 15. (AP) Republicans swept Maine offices to day In a state election featured by a 5000-vote victory of Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., for a second term over Gov. Louis J. Brann. The record balloting In the trad! tlonally Republican state also saw the party's candidates for governor and three U. S. representatives win by much larger margins. The Republican victory, which ob servers stud led closely for possi ble portents In the nation-wide Novem ber poll, ousted the Democrats from four years of state control. Demo crate had held two of the congres sional posts as well as the governor ship. White Strong In Rural Areas Senator Whit, a Republican vet eran of 20 years' service in Washing ton, piled up a sufficient lead in the rural districts and small towns to overturn Brann's margin In 12 of the state'a 20 municipalities. The senatorial vote with only seven precincts missing: ( White, 157,861; B rutin,, 152.876. Not until Lewis ton's heavily Demo cratic .ward two reported Its count was White's victory assured. Brann took 12 of the state's 20 cities to whittle down a lead of 10.000 which his Republican opponent had massed earlier, built largely on the rural vote. Record Vote The electorate, whipped Into in tense Interest by a hot campaign (Continued on Fnge Six.) How Party Chiefs See Maine Results NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Pj Demo cratic National chairman James A. Parley said today, commenting on the result ol the Maine election: "Republican Maine remains Re publican In a local election by a re duced majority. "A Republican senator retains his seat by a margin so small that It may take a recount to determine the ac tual vote. "Perhaps a better way of stitlng the situation would be to aay that Maine countlnues Republican hy a majority of 40.000 DuPont-Morgan dollars. Whatever congratulations are exchanged among the liberty leaguers and the titular head of the minority party will be quite alright with ua but It does not seem like very much to brag on." CHICAGO. Sept. 15. (IP) Gov. All M. Landon said today "the Maine election has proved that the people of this country are aroused to their dangers and determined to preserve their system of government and of life." - 'The people of Maine have sounded a call that will find an Immediate ( Co n 1 1 n ued on Page Two . ) Chamber Display Features Airmail An airmail display was ar ranged In the three side windows of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce thla morning by Postmas ter Frank DeSouza. The exhibit will continue for a week and will be aug mented tomorrow by other items. In the display is a valuable col lection of first airmail flight cachets. Also included are model airplanes, photographs, placards and a poster showing the evolution of mall trans portation . Bolshevism Will Plunge Europe in Blood Hitler NURNBERO, Ocrmany. Sept. 15. (API The spread of bolshevlsm in Europe, Adolf Hitler believes, will pluntre the continent Into a "sea of blood. "I watch with fearful anxiety the developments in Europe." the Ger man chancellor declared In the clos ing spo-?h of the national socialist convention last night. "I have seen thla danger clearly but ! do not belong to those who faint at the sight of It." the fuehrer told thousands of applauding minis. We are rntenne a great period of ; . rvya period in which not the ftisearrcs but the brave will come out on top- Rivals in Maine Election Maine's election yesterday, the first In (he nation, was watched with close Interest as' a possible portent. Hern are victors and vnmiilhed In the major contests: Mount or WiiIIhcH. White, Jr. (top left), Itcpubllrnn. who defeated do v. Louis J. Ilrium (top right). Democrat, for the V. S .(nuto by fiooo votes. Lewis O. Harrow (below left), Republican, was victor over F. Harold Dulmrd (below right). Democrat, for the state governorship. (Atsoclnteri Press Photos.) SWEEP ON BILBAO AFTER Copyright, 1930, by the Associated Press SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Sept. 15. (P) Spanish Fascist renewed their campaign to subdue Socialists In northern Spain today with on ad vance toward the government lines at Orlo, 10 miles west. The first contingent of Fascist sol diers drove forward while others of the victorious Insurgents hurried re pairs to the war-damaged northern railroad In San Sebastian. The object of the new military ad vance, Fascist commanders said, la Bilbao, approximately 50 ml.es west ward along the northern coast. Renewal of the offensive resulted In hasty evacuation of Bilbao by for eigners and abandonment of the United States consulate. William E. hapman, the American consul, closed his headquarter on Instruction from Washington, and with his wife and son, Vice-Consul Manuel J. Codoner. 15 American na tionals and 24 foreigners, arrived at Saint Jean Do Lus, France, aboard the United States destroyer Kane. ORDINANCE ON ZONING ' BEFORE CITY COUNCIL Second and third readings of the codified zoning ordinance are to come before the council at Its regular semi monthly meeting In city hall at 7:30 tonight. Remainder of the agenda comprises routine business. San Franclwo flutter SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15. (AP- USDAl Butter: Score 03, 37c; 01. 35c; 00, 35c; 60, Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid 078; asked Quarterly Income, bid 1.73; asked 01. "We must be ready for every sacri fice God demands of ua We mus: have that which is most indlapcnslble of atl, raw materials the ore of the Iron heart." Hitler accepted the name the Rus sian press gave to him after his raustSc criticism of Jewry and bolshe vlsm, tnying: 'They call me a wild man. All right. As a wild man I am a better European." He scorned democracy with the comment: "It's all the same to us whether democracies Iia'e narl Ger many r.r i:o'. One can love or on can hale Germany but cue could never destroy it. GRANTS PASS, Sept. 15. (AP) Lines of battle ' for the life of Clarence Burke, 48, were delineated ca his first degree murder trial to day entered Its second day. Thirteen Jurors, one a "spare," were quickly chosen yesterday to hear testimony on the fatal shoot ing of Roland Burr, 23, on April 26, 1034. Opening statements by District Attorney Sherman S. Smith and W. T. Miller of the defense, counsel set up a charge that Burke shot Burj In the back aa h fled and a counter claim of self defense. Burr was shot and killed at Burke's lonely cabin on Lookout Point In the mountains on Rogue river, 45 miles northwest of Grants Pass. Mar tin Jennings, to be the state's star witness, was wounded. He traveled 18 miles of moun train trail to bring word of the shooting, but It waa not until a week later that the victim's body waa found deep In a Rogue river pool. f OF Fred Granville, charged with non support In a complaint signed by his wife, was placed under 1000 bonds and his preliminary hearing set for tomorrow by Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman thla morning. Deputy District Attorney Oeorgo W. Neil son Informed the court that Qranvllle, according to his wife's al legations, had threatened to shoot her and she wss "in fear." The dep uty district attorney urged that the bonds be fixed at 91000. Granville when arrested, according to Sheriff Syd I. Brown, had a pistol In his pocket. Granville denied he had any Intention of doing his wife bodily harm. W. E. Burkett and Wesley 'Oraham. chnfgMj with Improper license plates on their cars were assessed 95 and costs each. Leo B. Glasscock of Yreka, Calif., and Roy J. Hornbrook, charged with violation t of the basic speed law on the street of Ashland were fined 95 and costs. AUTO RIPS TROUSERS HALF OFF POLICEMAN DALLAS. Tex.. Sept. 15. (AP) WniA C, Hall, rookie traffic policeman, nearly lost his pants In an argument with t woman traffic violator. Directing traffic near the main gates to the Tessa centennial ei po sition. Hall stopped the woman and lectured her on passing red light. The lecture over, she drove away, tarrying most of 'his pants with her. A pocket bad caught on a door handle. FIVE STATES CAST AS CHIEFS ARGUE Massachusetts, Michigan, And New Hampshire Sen atorial .Voting Expected To Rival Hot Maine Race. DETROIT, Sept. 15. (AP) Point Aux Barques, a small community at the tip of the Michigan thumb dis trict upheld 1U record of being first to report in Michigan elections by completing tabulation of Its 15 reg istered votes av 10:30 a. m. Fourteen Republican ballots and one Demo cratic were cast In that one pre cinct. There are, 3,487 precincts in the state. MASHPEE. Msss.. Sept. 15. (AP) Mashpee, the first town to report In today's primary, gave Governor James M. Curley 50 votea to two for his opponent. Mayor Robert E. Greenwood of Fltchburg in the con test for the Democratic nomination for tJ. 8. senate. Thomas O. O'Brien, union party candidate, received one vote. Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr.. candidate for the Republican nomination for the same office, received 30 votea to five for Aloneo B, Cook, former state auditor. (By the Associated press.) Leaders of the major parties dis puted today over tho significance of the Republican victorlea In Maine while the rank and file In five states were selecting their nominees for federal and state offices. The Massachusetts, Michigan and New Hampshire senatorial primaries produced counterpart of the heavy Maine voting In some sections. Governor Curley In Massachusetts waa having It out with Mayor Green wood of Fltchburg on the Democratic side, and Henry Cabot Lorge en dorsed In party convention faced two opponents for the Republican nomination. Brucker Leading. Former Governor Brucker waa given an early but slight lead over Senator Couzens, a Roosevelt supporter, for the Republican nomination In Michi gan. Frank D. Fitzgerald led for Re publican nomination to tho governor ship. Democratic returns were still to start coming In. Former President Hoover's endorse-; ment of George Moses for the Re publican senatorial nomination In New Hampshire, also being sought (Continued on page Five.) SALEM. Ore., Sept. 15, (AP) The preliminary railroad conference will be held In Salem. Governor Martin said today after considering request It to be held at Orants Pass or some southern city closer to the scene of the proposed construction. The governor called the meeting for September 22 at the capital city to obtain views of communities and organizations relative to the proposed cross-state and coast railroad pro jects. The governor' report will be presented to the Interstate commerce commission at the hearing on the Orants Pass-Crescent City railroad to be held In the Oregon city about September 28. Governor Martin aald ha wished to attend the conference and if It were held elsewhere It would be Impossible for him to do so. Invitations to chambers of commerce, organizations and Individuals Interested In the va rious railroad proposals were sent out today to attend the Salem confer ence. ASSET VALUATIONS FIXED FOR COUNTY The assessable taluation if. mer chandise In Jackson count; (or the coming tax year has been fixed at $893,380 toy the assesuor'a orrice, now engaged In fixing the tax valuation for the year. The assessable valuation of farm machinery la placed at 1206,760: ho tel and office equipment at 1180,4.); and machinery and mechanical equip, ment at ,319,320. Dairy cows of the county, number lug 1,099, have a valuation of aiso, 310; atock cattle, numbering 19,471, valuation 1261,760; 6.974 aheep, valu ation 629.990, and 3.502 swine, valu ation 110.790. The aucssor's office estimates that the county valuation will be prac tically the Mm aa last year. WITH CHINESE IN T Remnants Of Old Force Which Fought Japs At Shanghai Object To Inves tigation By Landing Force SHANGHAI, Sept. 18. (AP) Jap anese sailors, who sought to force the landing at Pakhol of Tokyo In vestigators Into the death of a Jap anese national, were reported today to have clashed with Chinese sold iers. , The vernacular newspaper Hunpao declared In & dispatch from Canton the Japanese sailors met opposition from remnants of the old 10th route Chinese army which fought Japanese forcea at Shanghai In 1033. Before the reported clash, six Jap anese fighting ships were declared to have assembled off the north coast of Hainan Island where they had been sent by the Tokyo govern ment to "protect Japanese Interests In south China." The Investigation which the Jap anese sought to carry out was Into the reported slaying of Chinese of Junzo Nakano, Japanese proprietor of a drug store In Pakhol. Nakano was declared to have been fatally (Continued on Page Two) R1CKENBACKER UNABLE LOCATE SEA HOPPERS L NT5W YORK, Sept. 18. (AP) Cap tain Eddie Rick en backer and hla fiy Inff rescue party searched in vain along the lonely northeast coast of Newfoundland today for the Isolated Musgrave Harbor bog where Harry Rlchman and Dick Merrill were forc ed down. The rescue party returned to Har bor Grace, Rlckcnbacker said then he would try to commttnlcate with the grounded trans-Atl ant la filers by radio. Musgrave Harbor Is 180 miles from Harbor Grace. Rickenbackar, flying; a plane with supplies and spare parts for the round-trip ocean filers, said he followed the railroad line over Newfoundland, scanning the coun tryside carefully, but saw no sign of the plane. There was hope here at Floyd Ben nett field, Brooklyn, that Rlcken bicker would havo little difficulty In locating the Merrlll-Rlchman plane. Lady Peace, and would find a suitable landing spot on a nearby beach. L Ralph L. Pollock, charged with practicing dentistry without a lic ense, will go on trial thla afternoon before a jury In Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman's court. Pollock, who formerly conducted a dental lab oratory In this city but has been In California for several years, returned several weeks ago.. The warrant waa served Saturday, on a complaint algned by O. E. Kuns The prosecution will be represented. It waa said, by an attorney of the state dental board and Deputy Dis trict Attorney George W. Nell ion, Jurors drawn late Monday to hear the case are: Charles Carlton, Prank Applegate, Lee Watson. John Kirk pa trick and Frank Llndloy, with Wei don McBee and P.' O. Btgham as alternates. Billion Dollar Defence Budget Planned for U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (AP) High government financial quarters disclosed today that budget estimates for the next fiscal yiar probably will call for national defense expenditures topping the billion-dollar mark. Thla report circulated aa govern ment departments engaged In a last minute rush to file estimates for th 1038 flscsl yaer with Daniel W. Bell, acting director of the budget bureau. Deadline for filing esttmatea for tlie 13 months beginning next July I was set today, with hearings opening September 21. In a call for est Irna tea to the heads of department and agencies. Bell urged that "every Jpajble ef Record Number Take Advantage Tribune Bargain The Mall ' rlbune's annual Bar gain Days have gone "over the top," establishing a new high mark for similar fall events con ducted by this newspaper. We ire especially gratified In the number of new subscribers who availed themselves of bargain day rates, contributing substantially to the rapidly growing circulation of the Mail Tribune. It has been the aim of the pub lishers of this newspsper to offer the finest of news service, the pick of features and the most en tertaining of comics. The response to Bargain Days this year is evi dence of the enthusiastic public acceptance of the Mall Tribune. So, to all Mall Tribune Bargain Day subscribers, we say "Thank voul" BY FROST; RISING T Temperatures dropped to a low of I 34 degrees thla morning to give the Rogue River valley one of lta coldest September nights. The mercury did not drop to such a low point laat year until mid-October, weather bu reau records show. The lowest Sep tember temperature on record here Is 20, set In 1020. It waa feared that last night's low temperatures might have damaged to matoes, a large volume of which re mains to be harvested, but O. B. Cordy, deputy county agent, stated thla afternoon after making a field lnsectlon that there would be no commercial loss unless the tempera tures continued to hover around tho (ree&tng marfc. , Tops of tomato plants were dam aged by frost but the tomatoes them selves were not genorally Injured, Mr, Cordy said. He added that there might be a slight loss In tho Central Point district, where the frost was even more severe than In other parte of the valley. County Agent Robert Q, Fowler aald frost would not damage other (Continued on Page Five.) RECALL OF '0. A. YREKA, Cat., Sept. IB. P Peti tions for the recall of District Attor ney James Davis, charging him with misconduct In office, were circulated here today. A Juror at the recent coroner's In quest Into the killing of three men. for whose deaths the two Brlte broth ers are sought for questioning, ac cused Davla of taking the side of John and Coke Brlte. Eight accusations wera m a d t against the district attorney. Includ ing "that In the recent killing of two peace officers In this county and of a civilian, he has attempted to make a publlo showing of tht Inci dent and has made statementa that have disqualified him from prosecut ing the case." Other charges were that he had ordered witnesses In a murder case Imprisoned without probable cause, spent hla time In civil practice, al lowed persona to remain In Jail too long on bailable charges, and had absented himself from office. H hoot a Helf In Foot. ROSEBURO, Ore., Sept. 15. P) Dick Croucher, 11, son of Mr, and Mrs. George Croucher of Olalla, was brought to the hospital here today suffering from a gunshot wound In the foot, The accident occurred while the lad was engaged In shoot ing predatory birds in the family orchard. fort" be made to bring demanda for 1038 flscsl year with Daniel W. Bell, current fiscal period. Officials said that the national de fense estimate would rise above the 9020.000,000 outlay projected In the current year because more money will be necessary to carry on a program of expansion already under way. Tho enlsrged national defense pro gram contemplate!, additional funda In 1038, It waa said, because costs for some features already Inaugurated wilt grow heavier. The amount of a possible Increase was not estimated, but officials aster ted requests lor al lotments probably would go above SI ,000,000,000. CITY'S SCHOOLS T 2478 Registered As Second Week Opened Junior High Has Largest Attend anceMore Are Expected As the second week of the fall school term opened yesterday, figures at Supt. E. H. Hedrlck'a office showed an Increase of almost 300 over thla time Inst week end about 35 more students enrolled than at thla time last year. Yesterday's registration to taled 2478, compared with 3181 last Monday noon and 2443 at the begin ning of the second week last year. Junior high school still led all oth ers with a total enrollment of 684, compared with 611 lest week. Senior high school showed the greatest la crease, enrollment reaching 608 yes terday in contrast to tho 480 regie tred on the opening day. Other fig ures were: Jackson school, 300 yes terday and 378 last week; Lincoln, 243 yesterday and 320 last week; Roosevelt. 203 and 376; Washington 381 and 343. School officials expect a much greater Increase within the next month. Final figures cannot be com piled before then, Hedrlck aald, be cause a very large number of the older students are still employed 1 the fruit harvest and will be for the next three or four weeks. Hedrlck emphasized the fact figures so far are erratic and subject to change and that no conclusions can be draw for some time. Aa many of the county schools dlf not open until yesterday and many of the country student are alsa working In orchards or packing houses the few figures received so far bfj C. R. Bowman, county school super IntonUeut, give no Indication as ts) final outcome, Mowman stated.. Bsj added, however, that an unusual di trlbutlon had been noted, some schools having an extraordinarily low. attendance and others being very crowded, ' Bowman also stated that of the possible 640 high school students from non-high school districts ex pected to apply for entranos Into sec ondary schools of tho county, only 340 have done so. Thla is attributed by the county office as due to the fact that the greater majority of stu dents working come In this age group and the majority of the eligible num ber are expected to register wlthla tho next three weeks. OLYMPIA, Sept. 15. () The su preme court Invalidated Washington's unemployment Insurance law today In upholding , lower court dedal on which said the act was unconstitu tional. "After careful consideration of the case, we hold that In new of the leg 11 at ion as finally enacted by the congress, the law never became op erative, and that, the superior court rightly enjoined the state authorities from putting the stats law into op eration," said the high courts decis ion. , The 1835 stats law was designed to prevent, where possible, unemploy ment and to compensate those whe lose their Jobs under certain condi tions. BASEBALL National Cincinnati at Brooklyn, postponed! wot ground.. (Doubla header tomor row), Chicago at Boston postpon.d; threat cnlng weather. ( Doubla header to morrow) . Pittsburgh at New York, postponed, rain and wet grounds, (double-header tomorrow). St. Louis at Philadelphia, port poned, rain. Two tomorrow. American R. R. n. ... U 4 S 11 Philadelphia Detroit Llsenbee, Ross and Hayea; Row anal Relber. R. H. . 7 14 I 1 New York - Chicago ........ Pearson, Broaca and Dlckejr; Cain. Chcllnl, Dietrich and Scwell. R. H. . Boston . a 4 Cleveland IS 15 1 Polndexter, Henry, Bowera and Bersi Allen. Hllderbrand and George. Pint game: R. H. . Washington 1 ' St. Loula 7 whltchin, DeShong and Hogan: Hogsett. Thomas, Llebhardt an Hemaler, JakjKkl. . ?
